Mauritius

Due to rough seas it took us longer than expected to get to Mauritius so instead of having 3 fulls days it was more like 2 and a half. Mauritius is pretty much semester at sea spring break. Me and Greg really did not have any plans for the island except to get to the beach. Right as we got of the ship we headed into Port Louis (the capital) to do some shopping and maybe get some food. This was cut short because Greg got pick pocketed. Nothing important was taken just money and his id but we headed back to the ship to report it. We headed back to the ship took care of everything and then headed back out until around 6:30. When we got back we saw Isaiah and lots of other semester at sea kids outside the ship. They had rented villas at Flic en Flacq beach (one of the nicest beaches on the island) for the next 2 nights. Everyone was getting together there to party and hang out at the beach. Isaiah told us that we should just come with the group and that we could find a place to sleep once we go there but that so many people were going no one would care if we crashed on the floor.

As soon as we go there we bumped into someone people greg knew who said they had lost their group and that we could stay at their house and even get a bed. This was the best situation possible. That night all of us went to a party at the main villa site and it was basically a huge house party with a gigantic pool in the middle where everyone was diving. The place got absolutely trashed and I felt bad for the people who would have to pay for it. My villa was like a 10 minute walk from those and in a different complex so it was nice to come back to a clean safe place. The next day all the people who were staying at my villa went to the beach and basically recovered from the night before we also made plans to get a catamaran the following day.

Basically, we were told that all the catamarans on the west side of the island were booked out (made sense cause that's where the SAS kids were). However, the guy booking it for us found one on the other side of the island that 9 of us could rent out for the day with food, transportation, and all the drinks we could want for 60 dollars a person. It seemed to good to be true cause everyone else we talked to was spending 100 per person and that was for a catamaran with like 30 people. It turned out to be better then imagined. We got to have the thing to ourselves and it was a clean new boat. We visited a water fall and they gave us equipment to go snorkeling in the coral reef. We then visited an island which is famous for its amazing beach and we saw it on all the post cards. We hung out on the island for about 2 hours then headed slowly back to shore while again drinking as much as we wanted. We spent about 7 hours on the boat altogether and got driven directly back to the ship at which point we all crashed from getting about 6 hours of sleep over 3 days.

That pretty much sums up Mauritius.